MAKING A SCENE - performative gestures of noise, interference, and destruction
The symposium Making a Scene – performative gestures of noise, interference, and destruction focuses on staged disturbances across the arts – whether on theatre stages, in museums, in archives, concert halls, in social media, or in other public spaces. Presenters include scholars from across the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies (IKK), University of Copenhagen, as well as invited keynote(s) and artists. The occasion for the symposium is the 300 years celebration of Danish theatre in the fall of 2022.
Registration
Deadline for registration: September 7th 2022
Programme
| 09:30-10:00 | Welcome and coffee Karen Vedel, Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies, UCPH |
| 10:00-11:00 | Keynote: Zentrum für politische Schönheit: Art Must Hurt Moderator Laura Luise Schultz, Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies, UCPH |
| 11:00-12:00 | Staging Documents: Turning Archives of Violence into Scenes of Accountability Solveig Gade, Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies, UCPH Spectacular destruction: Staging the defeat of enemies at the early modern Danish court Casper Thorhauge Mønsted, PhD student in Art History, UCPH |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch and surprise interference |
| 13:30-15:00 | Provocation as Performative Praxis Michael Eigtved, Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies, UCPH Dissolution of Self, Destruction of World: The Idea of Death in Black Metal Music Tore Tvarnø Lind, Associate Professor in Musicology “Oprør eller Klimakollaps” – Climate Activism as Noise, Artistic Intervention, and Sabotage Ania Mauruschat, postdoc in Musicology, UCPH |
| 15:00-15:45 | Coffee, Cake & Performance: Sara Hamming: Lost Title |
| 15:45-17:15 | ‘B/ordering’, Freedom Country and being ‘citizen number 3’: Staging Asylum through Polyphonic Writing with Denmark’s Asylum Community Helene Grøn, Postdoc, Dept. of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies, UCPH Art in Motion: Making the art museum a scene for the “almost violent dynamic” of the present in 1961 Kristian Handberg, Assistant Professor in Art History, UCPH |
| 17:15 | Wrap up and bubbly |